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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of varied incidents from individuals.  My perception is that over the past decade that I've been involved one way or another with MCPS, is that:
1 - there is no discipline.  Partly because of the racial disparities that had occurred, so the pendulum has swung the other way and there's none.  Teachers don't bother because they know the administration won't support them.  Administration doesn't bother because they don't want the school numbers to look bad.  Central office is all about the data, so no or fewer incidents = good, even if that's not reality.
2- pendulum has also swung away from discrete classrooms for all kinds of special ed.  That's good, because many of these kids, many of whom were mis-diagnosed used to be locked in basement rooms and taught nothing.  However, with mail streaming being the new normal, there are now kids in gen ed classrooms who clearly don't belong there, and the schools don't know how and/or don't have the resources to handle these kids. Throwing an uneducated para in a class with a violent ED kid is not going to make it work.
3- so much less respect for teachers today.  Parents complain all the time about the teachers having it easy.  The same teacher with 5 sections of 35 kids, many with behavior issues not being dealt with.  They support their kid against the teacher, instead of working as a team to solve whatever the issue is.  Not sure why this is, but there's a multi page thread about teachers being whiny.  I think it's the parents who are whiny.
4- pay isn't great in the beginning, not for our high cost of living area.  
5- professional development?  That's all been cut, because parents don't  like random days off (see many threads about that). Many professionals go to conferences and other continuing education classes to stay on top of their game, but we no longer afford teachers that opportunity.  Instead they are told to do it on the summer.  In the summer, when they don't get paid, and may have children of their own to care for.

I could go on and on, but teachers get into teaching because they want to work with kids.  To see that spark when a kid understands a new concept.  To teach.  Instead, there's tons of paperwork, administrators and parents who don't support them, little money and no respect.  There are already teacher shortages.  I predict it will only get worse.
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There is very little to no teaming at our school with parents.  We don't have any idea what is going on in the classroom - good or bad.  We get very little worksheets home, nothing on their google accounts so what is really going on?  We offer to volunteer and help and are told no.  We email the teacher asking what she needs in terms of supplies and cannot even get a response.[/quote]

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